Tributary is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter T and ends with the letter Y for which we found 5 definitions.
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(a.) Paying tribute to another either from compulsion as an acknowledgment of submission or to secure protection or for the purpose of purchasing peace. |
(a.) Hence subject; subordinate; inferior. |
(a.) Paid in tribute. |
(a.) Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up a greater object of the same kind as a part branch etc.; contributing; as the Ohio has many tributary streams and is itself tributary to the Mississippi. |
(n.) A ruler or state that pays tribute or a stated sum to a conquering power for the purpose of securing peace and protection or as an acknowledgment of submission or for the purchase of security. |
The word tributary is a 9 letter word that has 4 syllable 's . The syllable division for tributary is: trib-u-tar-y